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One starts the hare, another catches it.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

A starved town is soon forced to surrender.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about city

The hare starts from where it is least expected.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

A sailor must have his eye trained to the rocks and sands as well as the north star.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about rocks, celebrity

Abuse often starts with praise.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about praise

To the starving man the beauty of Fujiyama has no meaning.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about beauty, man

When you talk about future happenings the devil starts to laugh.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about future, devil

When the money starts to glitter and clink, even a Mullah will leave the mosque.

Proverbs and old sayings about money

Midway between the earth and the starry Olympus.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about earth

We start to die when we are born, and the end depends on the beginning.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about beginning, end

Midway between the earth and the starry Olympus. [In a quandary. In a fix. ]

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about earth

Every innovation startles us more by its novelty than it benefits us by its utility.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about innovation, novelty

To a starving man bread is sweeter than honey.

Proverbs and old sayings Lithuanian about man

A starving crocodile is never pleasant.

Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy

The good judge starts at home.

Proverbs and old sayings Mexican about judges, home, good, good luck

It's a bad start on the week for the man who is hanged on a monday.

Proverbs and old sayings Mexican about bad luck, bad, man

A tiger wearing a bell will starve.

Proverbs and old sayings Mongolian

Do not start if afraid, once begun do not be afraid.

Proverbs and old sayings Mongolian

When the fish gets rotten, it all starts from the head.

Proverbs and old sayings about heads

As soon as the monkey has climbed a tree, it will start abusing from its elevated position.

Proverbs and old sayings